Setting the Hard Disk Drive Jumpers
You may need to change the hard disk drive jumper settings if you install or remove a hard disk drive. The jumpers tell the computer whether you are using one hard disk drive or two.
Note
You do not need to set these jumpers if you are removing your only hard disk drive.
If you are installing just one hard disk drive, see “Changing the Jumper Settings,” below, to check the jumpers on your drive.
If you are removing one hard disk drive and leaving another in your computer, you need to change the jumper settings on the remaining drive to indicate that it will be the only hard disk drive installed.
If you install two hard disk drives in your system, you must change the jumper settings on each drive to indicate which drive is the master (primary) drive and which is the slave (secondary) drive.
A master drive is the drive on which you’ll install the operating system that the computer loads into its memory each time you turn it on. You can run application programs and store data on both the master drive and the slave drive, but the operating system must be contained on the master drive.
Follow the instructions below to change the jumper settings on your hard disk drives.